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Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration

Posted by kdawson on from the sure-you-did dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Citing figures from market research firm NPD, Microsoft says Windows' share of the US netbook market has ballooned from less than 10% in the first half of 2008 to 96% as of February. 'The growth of Windows on netbook PCs over the last year has been phenomenal,' wrote Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger, in a post Friday. Information Week author Paul McDougall notes Microsoft's 8% decline in Windows sales is due to netbooks sporting Linux. How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?"

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  1. Wee CPUs by QuincyDurant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Alphasmart Neo is a useful device that apparently runs on a Motorola DragonBall chip running at 16Mhz and change. http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=c68328ez It runs for 700 hours on three 2AA batteries. Of course, it doesn't do much. http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=motherboard&w=39436080%40N00&m=pool

  2. I have a netbook for sale if you're interested by kamelkev · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I went to Postgres East last week and won an ASUS EEE PC 1000. It has the 40GB SSD, 1.6ghz Atom and Linux installed.

    Unfortunately I can't install a raw install of OSX on it (like the mini9 can) so I'm looking to sell this one.

    They opened it at the conference to show to other people, but it's unused and has never been turned on.

    I'm asking for 375... email me if interested